Cannes Film Festival 75th Anniversary
I am delighted to report that I have been chosen to serve on the International Critics Jury of the upcoming Cannes Film Fest, held May 17-28, as representative of the U.S. contingency of film critics.
It will mark my 68th jury service since 1985, and my fifth at the Cannes Film Fest, which I had begun attending in 1984, when Jim Jarmusch, then an unknown filmmaker, won the Camera d’Or prize for his second feature, Stranger Than Paradise.
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Cannes Film Fest, the most prestigious and influential film event in the world.
Over the next month, we will be running special editions of the Cannes Film Fest, year by year, from 1946 to the present.
The first Cannes Film Festival was held September 20 to October 5, 1946.
Jury for the Feature films and Shorts:
Georges Huisman (France) (historian, president)
Iris Barry (USA)
Beaulieu (Canada)
Antonin Brousil (Czechoslovakia)
J.H.J. De Jong (Netherlands)
Don Tudor (Romania)
Samuel Findlater (UK)
Sergei Gerasimov (Soviet Union)
Jan Korngold (Poland)
Domingos Mascarenhas (Portugal)
Hugo Mauerhofer (Switzerland)
Filippo Mennini (Italy)
Moltke-Hansen (Norway)
Fernand Rigot (Belgium)
Kjell Stromberg (Sweden)
Rodolfo Usigli (Mexico)
Youssef Wahby (Egypt)
Helge Wamberg (Denmark)
Films in Competition
Feature films
Amanti in fuga, directed by Giacomo Gentilomo
Anna and the King of Siam, directed by John Cromwell (US)
Blod och eld directed by Anders Henrikson
Brevet fra afdøde directed by Johan Jacobsen
Brief Encounter directed by David Lean (UK)
Caesar and Cleopatra directed by Gabriel Pascal (UK)
Camões directed by José Leitão de Barros
Chelovek No. 217 directed by Mikhail Romm
De Røde Enge directed by Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen, Jr.
Die Letzte Chance directed by Léopold Lindtberg
Dunia directed by Muhammad Karim
Floarea reginei directed by Paul Calinescu
Gaslight, directed by George Cukor (US), featuring Ingrid Bergman in her first Oscar-winning performance.
Gilda directed by Charles Vidor (US)
Glinka directed by Lev Arnchtam
Iris och löjtnantshjärta directed by Alf Sjöberg
Il bandito directed by Alberto Lattuada
Kamennyy tsvetok directed by Aleksandr Ptouchko
La Bataille du Rail directed by René Clement
La Belle et La Bête directed by Jean Cocteau
La symphonie pastorale directed by Jean Delannoy
Le Miserie del Signor Travet directed by Mario Soldati
Le Père tranquille directed by René Clement
Un revenant directed by Christian-Jaque
Los tres mosqueteros directed by Miguel M. Delgado
Make Mine Music directed by Joshua Meador, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bob Cormack, Hamilton Luske
Maria Candelaria directed by Emilio Fernández
Muzi bez krídel directed by Frantisek Cap
Neecha Nagar directed by Chetan Anand
Nezbedný bakalár directed by Otakar Vavra
Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock (US)
Patrie directed by Louis Daquin
Rhapsody in Blue directed by Irving Rapper
Roma Citta Aperta directed by Roberto Rossellini
The Captive Heart directed by Basil Dearden
The Lost Weekend directed by Billy Wilder
The Magic Bow directed by Bernard Knowles
The Seventh Veil directed by Compton Bennet (UK)
Três Dias Sem Deus directed by Barbara Virginia
Un giorno nella vita directed by Alessandro Blasetti
Velikiy Perelom directed by Fridrikh Ermler
Wonder Man directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Zdravstvuy, Moskva! directed by Sergei Yutkevich
Zoya directed by Lev Arnchtam
Winners
Feature Films
Grand Prize of the Festival: Tie
Brief Encounter by David Lean
Iris och löjtnantshjärta by Alf Sjöberg
The Last Chance by Leopold Lindtberg
The Lost Weekend by Billy Wilder
María Candelaria (Xochimilco) by Emilio Fernández
Men Without Wings by Frantisek Cáp
Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand
Red Meadows by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.
Rome, Open City by Roberto Rossellini
La symphonie pastorale by Jean Delannoy
Velikiy perelom by Fridrikh Ermler
International Jury Prize:
La Bataille du rail by René Clément
Best Actor: Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend
Best Actress: Michèle Morgan for La symphonie pastorale
Best Director: René Clément for La Bataille du rail
Best Cinematography: Gabriel Figueroa for María Candelari (Xochimilco) and Los tres mosqueteros
Best Animation Design: Make Mine Music
Best Colour: The Stone Flower
International Peace Award: The Last Chance
Note:
Held after WWII, the Cannes Festival showed Hollywood movies that were made in 1944, such as George Cukor’s noir thriller Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman in her first Oscar winning role, and Billy Wilder’s 1945 Best Picture Oscar winner, The Lost Weekend.
